A Tasty October
Fall is blockbuster season, but if you’re looking for proof that there’s much more to celebrate in October than eagerly awaited releases by Messrs.…
Read MoreFall is blockbuster season, but if you’re looking for proof that there’s much more to celebrate in October than eagerly awaited releases by Messrs.…
Read MoreI’ve been thinking about how to write fictionally about real events, people, and history. A fellow writer suggested I read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. …
Read MoreFrom Birds of A Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner – March 2012 This story was sent through the dryer on high heat.…
Read MoreDH: 1Q84 has an improv quality that I think not all readers will give it credit for. Oh I know, all novels are a riff of words by their authors.…
Read MoreFrom Birds of A Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner – March 2012 “When someone’s ideal is the absence of all human life, romance is kind of a joke.”…
Read MoreJE: Now that I’ve got a draft of my latest novel behind me, and I’ve promised my agent and editor (a little begrudgingly) to take a rest on blurbing for a season, I’ve finally had a chance to start catching up on my TBR list—that is, my other TBR list, the one composed of books I’m under absolutely no obligation to read as a blurber, blogger, reviewer, or friend.…
Read MoreChristopher Bollen and his novel, Lightning People completely skipped over me, I’m not taking it personally. The book is great so far, I’m only 100 pages in.…
Read MoreDH: What 1Q84 is ultimately about is what you will be holding in your hands as you read it. It’s a celebration of the craft of storytelling.…
Read MoreIf you’ve spent any time around The Nervous Breakdown over the years, you’ve probably run into Lenore Zion’s writing. She’s wickedly funny and smart, often scathingly so.…
Read MoreFrom Birds of A Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner – March 2012 This story certainly spreads out from where the first two seem to be rooted, and grows casually into a full gallop.There…
Read MoreEric Olsen is the co-author with Glenn Schaeffer of We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Skyhorse Pub, 2011), wherein the two alumni of the program offer a rollicking and insightful blend of interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with more than 20 graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers’ Workshop between 1974 and 1978. …
Read MoreFrom Birds of A Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner – March 2012 In the second story, we get a doctor who is treating two types of animals at his veterinarian’s office – different sick pets, and his wife. …
Read MoreDH: Haruki Murakami has a knack for presenting his characters as regular guys and gals. He’s also a very physical writer, a natural give-and-take athleticism is part of his prose.…
Read MoreFrom Birds of A Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman – Scribner – March 2012 “At first, it is so quiet my teeth hurt.”…
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